SRE/ DevOps Lead- Financial Services

Captar Partners Ltd; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Captar Partners Ltd, a fintech firm, seeks an experienced SRE/DevOps Lead to join its technology team and operate a containerized platform across markets. You will build automated pipelines, implement release strategies, maintain observability, and ensure security.

Collaboration with development teams is essential with potential off-hours incident handling. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in platform engineering or SRE, strong Linux (Red Hat-based) expertise, and solid automation and scripting

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in CS/IT or related field is required.
• 5+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Hands-on with Linux (Red Hat-based) in production.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration in prod.
• Familiar with automation tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting/programming for automation tasks.
• Solid understanding of networking and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Support and operate a containerized platform within a distributed environment.
• Build and maintain automated pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Implement modern release strategies for stable rollouts and recovery.
• Drive automation and continuous delivery for deployment efficiency.
• Maintain observability with monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Ensure platform security including patching and vulnerability management.
• Collaborate with dev/engineering to onboard and deploy apps.
• Respond to production incidents with RCA and improvements.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and standards.

Skills

SRE/DevOps leadership

CI/CD practices

Automation scripting

Monitoring & observability

Networking basics

Distributed systems

Security best practices

English & Chinese

Off-hours incident handling

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/IT

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins CI/CD

Job description

We are working with a fintechcompany supporting a large-scale, business-critical digital platform across multiple markets. They are looking for an experienced SRE/ DevOps Lead to join their technology team.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and operate a containerized application platform within a distributed environment.
• Enhance software delivery processes by building and maintaining automated pipelines and deployment workflows across multiple environments.
• Implement modern release strategies to ensure stable and controlled application rollouts and recovery.
• Drive automation and continuous delivery practices to improve deployment efficiency and consistency.
• Maintain system observability, including monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to ensure platform health and early issue detection.
• Ensure platform security, including system hardening, patching, and vulnerability management.
• Work closely with development and engineering teams to support application onboarding and deployment.
• Respond to and manage production incidents, including investigation, root cause analysis, and follow-up improvements.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in platform reliability, scalability, and operational standards.

Requirements

• Degree or Higher Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise Linux environments, particularly Red Hat-based platforms (mandatory).
• Solid experience with containerization and orchestration concepts in production environments.
• Experience in CI/CD practices and automation tools within modern software delivery environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools.
• Good understanding of networking concepts and distributed systems architecture.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and system observability practices.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming for automation tasks.
• Exposure to system infrastructure components such as databases, operating systems, virtualization, and container technologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex system issues.
• Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements in enterprise environments.
• Relevant certifications and knowledge of industry standards are advantageous.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Proficiency in English and Chinese (spoken and written).
• Willingness to support off-hours incident handling when required.

We apologies that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.